The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1887-09-15

HOUSE WHERE e. S. GRANT Was MARRIED.
in the banking business in San Francisco as the
partner OF a retired Army friend, Mai. Henry s.
Turner. MAJ. TGrnerhad married the daughter
Ofthe richest man in 81. Louis, a wealthy banker
named Lucas, and the firm in which Sherman
was partner was branch of the Lucas bank
In ST. Louis. When the San Francisco branch
was abandoned Maj Turner had returned to
st. Louis TO live, and there Sherman came also
when the threatening condition Of affairs in the
South indicated the ACCESSIBILITY of his leaving
Louisiana. The war was at that time only a
possibility OF the future, Fort Sumter had not
been fired upon. and as Sherman had been out
OF the army for some years, he Of course sought
civic occupation when he came to st. Louis,
intending 20 make it his permanent home.
Through the influence of the many friends he
had made in years previous when stationed at
Sc. Louis as a Young Army officer, be was made
President and managing official Of the princi-
pal street railway IN the city at that time,
operating the Fifth street or Broadway line,
connecting the northern and southern ends of
the city. IN that occupation at the outbreak of
hOstiitics be quickly put the railway manage
ment ia other hands and left for Washington TO
put himself az the service Of his country in the
field. Shortly after reaching Washington be
was rendered the Ohio regiment, in command
OF which he resumed the uniform he had laid
aside eight years before. When the wRr-was
ever Gen. sherman had his headquarters IN st.
Louis when commanding the Department of
Missouri. The fine mansion then presented
by 3 number Of bis friends still belongs TO him.
To ST. Louis sherman went again shortly after
he was made General of the Army moving his
headquarters there, and once more he chose il
NJ his home when placed on the retired list.
sCHOFIELDs LIFE IN ST. LOUIS.
Gen. Scholeld, as already intimated was also
In ST. Louis, doing modest civic duty when the
first cannon sounded the dreadful t0csin of war
from Charleston Harbor. Like Sherman, he
had driited into the field Of education, and was
teaching the young idea how TO shoot through
the maZes OF science at Washington Univer-
sity. lie was still Lieutenant in the Army,
having received extended leave to enable him
20 take the chair in the 81. Louis college. but
would probably have resigned ultimately aud
have remained a permanent resident of st.
Louis but for the dire need of his country in
the hour OF rebellion. He was not long in
finding his place in the field, however, and in
the first notable engagement on Missouri soil,
the battle OF Wilson'S Creek, near Springfield,
he participated as an Aid on the Staff of the
gallant Nathaniel Lyon, whose promising ca
reer ended all too soon in that first battle.
SchOiclds first commission IN the volunteer
army, In which be afterwards reached the high
est rank, was that of Major of the 18th Mo.
IL is an interesting circumstance that three OF
The greatest Generals Of the war, perhaps the
three great among those who had been edu-
Gated at West Point, but were in civic life al
the beginning of the war, Grant, Sherman